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WINNERS OF THE PULITZER PRIZE

FOR BIOGRAPHY

The Pulitzer Prize, started by New York World publisher Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911), is awarded each year for books published the previous year. During some years no award was given.

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• 2007 - The most famous man in America : the biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate
• 2006 - American Prometheus: the triumph and tragedy of Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird
• 2005 - de Kooning: an American master by Mark Stevens & Annalyn Swan
• 2004 - Khrushchev: the man and his era by William Taubman
• 2003 - Master of the Senate, by Robert Caro
• 2002 - John Adams, by David McCullough
• 2001 - W.E.B. Du Bois : the fight for equality and the American century, 1919-1963, by David Levering Lewis
• 2000 - Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), by Stacy Schiff
• 1999 - Lindbergh, by A. Scott Berg
• 1998 - Personal history, by Katharine Graham
• 1997 - Angela's ashes : a memoir, by Frank McCourt
• 1996 - God : a biography, by Jack Miles
• 1995 - Harriet Beecher Stowe : a life, by Joan D. Hedrick
• 1994 - W. E. B. DuBois : biography of a race, 1868-1919, by David L. Lewis
• 1993 - Truman, by David McCullough
• 1992 - Fortunate son : the autobiography of Lewis B. Puller, Jr., by Lewis B. Puller, Jr.
• 1991 - Jackson Pollock : an American saga, by Stephen Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
• 1990 - Machiavelli in Hell, by Sebastian de Grazia
• 1989 - Oscar Wilde, by Richard Ellman
• 1988 - Look homeward : a life of Thomas Wolfe, by David Herbert Donald
• 1987 - Bearing the cross : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, by David J. Garrow
• 1986 - Louise Bogan : a portrait, by Elizabeth Frank
• 1985 - Life and times of Cotton Mather, by Kenneth Silverman
• 1984 - Booker T. Washington, by Louis R. Harlan
• 1983 - Growing up, by Russell Baker
• 1982 - Grant : a biography, by William S. McFeely
• 1981 - Peter the Great : his life and world, by Robert K. Massie
• 1980 - The rise of Theodore Roosevelt, by Edmund Morris
• 1979 - Days of sorrow and pain : Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews, by Leonard Baker
• 1978 - Samuel Johnson, by Walter Jackson Bate
• 1977 - A prince of our disorder : the life of T. E. Lawrence, by John E. Mack
• 1976 - Edith Wharton : a biography, by R. W. B. Lewis
• 1975 - The power broker : Robert Moses and the fall of New York, by Robert A. Caro
• 1974 - O'Neill, son and artist, by Louis Sheaffer
• 1973 - Luce and his empire, by W. A. Swanberg
• 1972 - Eleanor and Franklin, by Joseph P. Lash
• 1971 - Robert Frost : the years of triumph, 1915-1938, by Lawrence Thompson
• 1970 - Huey Long, by T. Harry Williams
• 1969 - The man from New York : John Quinn and his friends, by B. L. Reid
• 1968 - Memoirs (1925-1950), by George F. Kennan
• 1967 - Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, by Justin Kaplan
• 1966 - A thousand days : John F. Kennedy in the White House, by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
• 1965 - Henry Adams, by Ernest Samuels
• 1964 - John Keats, by Walter Jackson Bate
• 1963 - Henry James, volumes II and III, by Leon Edel
• 1962 - No award
• 1961 - Charles Sumner and the coming of the Civil War, by David Donald
• 1960 - John Paul Jones, by Samuel Eliot Morison
• 1959 - Woodrow Wilson : American prophet, by Arthur Walworth
• 1958 - George Washington, by Douglas Southall Freeman (volumes I-VI) and John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth (volume VII)
• 1957 - Profiles in courage, by John F. Kennedy
• 1956 - Benjamin Henry Latrobe, by Talbot F. Hamlin
• 1955 - The Taft story, by William S. White
• 1954 - The Spirit of St. Louis, by Charles A. Lindbergh
• 1953 - Edmund Pendleton, 1721-1803, by David J. Mays
• 1952 - Charles Evans Hughes, by Merlo J. Pusey
• 1951 - John C. Calhoun : American portrait, by Margaret Louise Coit
• 1950 - John Quincy Adams and the foundations of American foreign policy, by Samuel Flagg Bemis
• 1949 - Roosevelt and Hopkins, an intimate history, by Robert E. Sherwood
• 1948 - Forgotten first citizen : John Bigelow, by Margaret Clapp
• 1947 - Autobiography of William Allen White, by William Allen White
• 1946 - Son of the wilderness : the life of John Muir, by Linny Marsh Wolfe
• 1945 - George Bancroft : Brahmin rebel, by Russell Blaine Nye
• 1944 - The American Leonardo : the life of Samuel F. B. Morse, by Carleton Mabee
• 1943 - Admiral of the ocean sea : a life of Christopher Columbus, by Samuel Eliot Morison
• 1942 - Crusader in crinoline, the life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, by Forrest Wilson
• 1941 - Jonathan Edwards, by Ola Elizabeth Winslow
• 1940 - Woodrow Wilson, life and letters, by Ray Stannard Baker
• 1939 - Benjamin Franklin, by Carl Van Doren
• 1938 - Pedlar's progress : the life of Bronson Alcott, by Odell Shepard
    and Andrew Jackson, by Marquis James
• 1937 - Hamilton Fish : the inner history of the Grant administration, by Allan Nevins
• 1936 - The thought and character of William James, by Ralph Barton Perry
• 1935 - R. E. Lee : a biography, by Douglas Southall Freeman
• 1934 - John Hay : from poetry to politics, by Tyler Dennett
• 1933 - Grover Cleveland : a study in courage, by Allan Nevins
• 1932 - Theodore Roosevelt, by Henry F. Pringle
• 1931 - Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvard University, 1869-1909, by Henry James
• 1930 - The raven : a biography of Sam Houston, by Marquis James
• 1929 - The training of an American : the earlier life and letters of Walter H. Page, by Burton J. Hendrick
• 1928 - The American orchestra and Theodore Thomas, by Charles Edward Russell
• 1927 - Whitman : an interpretation in narrative, by Emory Holloway
• 1926 - The life of Sir William Osler, by Harvey Cushing
• 1925 - Barrett Wendell and his letters, by M. A. DeWolfe Howe
• 1924 - From immigrant to inventor, by Michael Pupin
• 1923 - The life and letters of Walter H. Page, by Burton J. Hendrick
• 1922 - A daughter of the middle border, by Hamlin Garland
• 1921 - The Americanization of Edward Bok : the autobiography of a Dutch boy fifty years after, by Edward Bok
• 1920 - The life of John Marshall, by Albert J. Beveridge
• 1919 - The education of Henry Adams, by Henry Adams
• 1918 - Benjamin Franklin, self-revealed, by William Cabell Bruce (Book not available)
• 1917 - Julia Ward Howe, by Laura E. Richards and Maude Howe Elliott, assisted by Florence Howe Hall